Panic grips social media as whispers of an 'alien invasion 2025' spread, triggered by telescope images capturing a colossal 'giant jet' erupting from the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS toward the Sun, ...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on 30 November with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument. At the time, the comet was about 286 million kilometers from Earth.
We humans are a curious bunch. Whenever we come across something unfamiliar, our minds naturally start filling in the blanks about what it could be. That’s exactly what’s happening with comet 3I/ATLAS ...
In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...
An astrophotograph of the interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS highlights its green coma and a wandering blue-tinted ion tail. (Copyright Victor Sabet and Julien De ...